The movie 'Shaft' is based on the need for an effective judicial system in order to prevent people from taking justice into th...

A criminal defendant does not have the right to cross-examine his victim's therapist at a restitution hearing, the Court of Ap...

Max Grafner Kolliner, retired court arbitrator, died June 27 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 89. Kolliner is remembered as ...

A brain-injured ballet dancer, who fought State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. for 10 years for a settlement likely to b...

Constructing its next generation of leadership, Oakland-based Crosby Heafey Roach & May has tapped litigator Stuart A. Sha...

SANTA ANA - Tenet Healthsystems Desert Inc., a subsidiary of Santa Barbara-based Tenet Healthcare Corp., has filed suit in Ora...

The so-called war on drugs has created a mindset among police officers that spawned much of the misconduct being alleged in th...

SAN FRANCISCO - Word around San Francisco's federal courthouse has it that Judge Marilyn Hall Patel postponed a crucial hearin...

Protest groups gearing up for the Democratic National Convention next month vowed Wednesday to enliven the streets of downtown...

With regard to reassignment, a company must not treat a disabled employee just like any other job applicant. ...

Funds must go into a trust account if any portion may belong to a client. ...

While employment in California is "at will," employers must be careful to avoid implied good-cause contracts.

To most voters, the recent 7-2 U.S. Supreme Court decision invalidating California's blanket primary, California Democratic Pa...

NEW YORK - In a resounding vote Tuesday, the American Bar Association's policy-making body refused to permit lawyers to form p...

It's not uncommon to hear clients claim they took a beating in court, but Linda Lee means it literally. In a suit filed in pro...

A large crowd of family, friends and colleagues attended a memorial service on Saturday afternoon for Adeline ("Addie") Mentze...

Services will be held Friday for Lawrence N. Rose, a sole practitioner who specialized in probate law. Rose died July 4. He wa...

NEW YORK - When the American Bar Association's annual meeting drew to a close Tuesday, five senior representatives from Califo...

The ACLU Foundation of Southern California will present one of two Torch of Liberty Awards today to entertainment attorney Don...

No aspect of the arbitration process is more often confused by parties' process choices, and garbled in written agreements to ...

Violent crime rates continue to climb in Los Angeles, with the number of homicides up more than 30 percent in the first half o...

SANTA ANA - A skirmish in the national battle over health care reform played out in Orange County Superior Court last week, as...

Deciding an incorrect legal standard was used, the Riverside Court of Appeal reversed a San Bernardino County Superior Court j...

SAN BERNARDINO - As part of an unusual plea agreement, a builder convicted of defrauding homeowners has been given a year to p...

Gov. Gray Davis on Tuesday appointed two former Los Angeles County Bar presidents to the Superior Court bench. Patricia M. Sch...

Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti said Tuesday he would like to see gang suppression police officers back on t...

VENTURA - Lee Mannheimer has a responsible job, lives in upscale Westlake Village, volunteers as an assistant Cub Scoutmaster ...

SAN JOSE - Representatives of the California Nurses Association say a recent federal court ruling is a major victory for union...

Have you watched the show "Survivor?" For those of you who are still at the office when it airs on Wednesday nights, the progr...

NEW YORK - People in prison who insist they are innocent again and again, year after year, actually may be innocent. That is o...